In true Christian fashion, Hope Christian School in Albuquerque, New Mexico just rejected a three-year-old from its preschool rosters because he has two fathers: Action 7 News got a copy of the letter that Hope Christian School sent to the family. It says in part: “Same gender couples are inconsistent with scriptural lifestyle and biblical [Read More…]

Now that Teresa MacBain is the Public Relations Director for American Atheists, the Clergy Project needs a new leader and they made an excellent choice in her replacement: Catherine Dunphy. Dunphy was a Roman Catholic Chaplain before she became an atheist and she was one of the first members of the Clergy Project when it [Read More…]

Advocates for marriage equality in California now have another prominent religious official acting as an obstacle: Salvatore Cordileone, the Roman Catholic bishop of Oakland who was recently named archbishop-elect of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI, is an especially loud anti-equality voice in the Catholic community, too. Neal Broverman of The Advocate writes: Cordileone not only helped [Read More…]

Decades after James Dobson spoke out against the evil horrors of pornography, I think it’s safe to say he lost that battle. (Video is SFW. Audio descriptions of sex, maybe not.) Strangely enough, the audience members’ reactions to hearing James Dobson talk about pornography was the same reaction I had listening to James Dobson in [Read More…]

The Atheism subreddit will probably hit the 1,000,000 subscribers milestone sometime within the next week: Sounds impressive… I mean, it is by far the largest “organized” atheist community in the world by a longshot. But does it actually mean anything? Isn’t r/atheism mostly a collection of images and memes and ragefaces and commentary mocking other [Read More…]